THE TOP 10 SELF-HELP BOOKS OF 2017 by Balanced Achievement

Title: The Little Book of Hygge

The definitive guide to the Danish well-being concept, Hygge, from happiness expert and CEO of the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen The Danish word hygge is one of those beautiful words that doesn't directly translate into English ...

Author(s): Meik Wiking

ISBN 13: 9780241283912
Pages: 287

Title: Peak Performance

The first book of its kind, Peak Performance combines the inspiring stories of top performers across a range of capabilities — from athletic, to intellectual, to artistic — with the latest scientific insights into the cognitive and ...

Author(s): Brad Stulberg Steve Magness

ISBN 13: 9781623367930
Pages: 240

Title: Daring to Drive

A memoir by a Saudi Arabian woman who became the unexpected leader of a movement to support women's rights describes how fundamentalism influenced her radical religious beliefs until her education, a job, and legal contradictions changed ...

Author(s): Manal al-Sharif

ISBN 13: 9781476793023
Pages: 304

Title: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

“For the last two years, I’ve interviewed more than 200 world-class performers for my podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show. The guests range from super celebs (Jamie Foxx, Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.) and athletes (icons of powerlifting, gymnastics, surfing, etc.) to legendary Special Operations commanders and black-market biochemists. For most of my guests, it’s the first time they’ve agreed to a two-to-three-hour interview. This unusual depth has helped make The Tim Ferriss Show the first business/interview podcast to pass 100 million downloads. “This book contains the distilled tools, tactics, and ‘inside baseball’ you won’t find anywhere else. It also includes new tips from past guests, and life lessons from new ‘guests’ you haven’t met. “What makes the show different is a relentless focus on actionable details. This is reflected in the questions. For example: What do these people do in the first sixty minutes of each morning? What do their workout routines look like, and why? What books have they gifted most to other people? What are the biggest wastes of time for novices in their field? What supplements do they take on a daily basis? “I don’t view myself as an interviewer. I view myself as an experimenter. If I can’t test something and replicate results in the messy reality of everyday life, I’m not interested.

Author(s): Tim Ferriss

ISBN 13: 9781328683786
Pages: 704

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Title: Principles

Dalio "shares the unconventional principles that he's developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business--and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals"- ...

Author(s): Ray Dalio

ISBN 13: 9781501124020
Pages: 592

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Title: Make Your Bed

Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life's darkest moments.

Author(s): William McRaven

ISBN 13: 9781455570249
Pages: 144

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Title: The Power of Moments

This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest.

Author(s): Chip Heath Dan Heath

ISBN 13: 9781501147760
Pages: 320

Title: The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds

Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the human mind erred, systematically, when forced to make judgments in uncertain situations. Their work created the field of behavioral economics, revolutionized Big Data studies, advanced evidence-based medicine, led to a new approach to government regulation, and made much of Michael Lewis’s own work possible. Kahneman and Tversky are more responsible than anybody for the powerful trend to mistrust human intuition and defer to algorithms. The Undoing Project is about a compelling collaboration between two men who have the dimensions of great literary figures. They became heroes in the university and on the battlefield―both had important careers in the Israeli military―and their research was deeply linked to their extraordinary life experiences. Amos Tversky was a brilliant, self-confident warrior and extrovert, the center of rapt attention in any room; Kahneman, a fugitive from the Nazis in his childhood, was an introvert whose questing self-doubt was the seedbed of his ideas. They became one of the greatest partnerships in the history of science, working together so closely that they couldn’t remember whose brain originated which ideas, or who should claim credit. They flipped a coin to decide the lead authorship on the first paper they wrote, and simply alternated thereafter.

Author(s): Michael Lewis

ISBN 13: 9780393254594
Pages: 320

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Title: Option B

"The author's experience with grief after the sudden death of her husband, combined with social science on resilience"--

Author(s): Sheryl Sandberg Adam M. Grant

ISBN 13: 9781524732684
Pages: 226